Posted on 05/08/2022 6:15:47 AM PDT by devane617
Country star Mickey Gilly, whose eponymous Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy” and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, has died. He was 86 years old.
Gilly died Saturday in Branson, Missouri, where he helped run the Mickey Gilly Grand Shanghai Theater. He was performing recently like last month, but from last one week health was going bad.
According to a statement from Mickey Gilly Associates, “he passed away peacefully with his family and close friends.”
Gilly – a cousin of rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis – opened Gilly, “the world’s biggest honky tonk” in Pasadena, Texas, in the early 1970s. By the middle of the decade, he was a successful club owner and enjoyed his first commercial success with “Room Full of Roses”. They began to regularly turn to country hits, including “Window Up Above,” “She’s Pulling Me Back Again” and “Don’t the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time.”
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And this mangled mess: “He was performing recently like last month, but from last one week health was going bad.”
They must be hiring fifth grade “reporters.”
Translated article.
Ate at his restaurant in Branson, MO.
Mickey Gilley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Rev. Jimmy Swaggart
are first cousins from Ferriday, Louisiana.
I think they are all related to Ronnie Milsap, also.
“Then we agree — it was written by an American product of the American school system.”
LOL! :)
Oh no you di’nt!
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Did he have a TV show based upon his bar? I have vague memories of a show called “Mickey’s Place” or something like that which was country-western? Or am I recalling another show?
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